Dell 2005FPW

I recently purchased my new Dell 2005FPW monitor from Dell.com. The purchase price was $398, considerably less than the listed price ($750), thanks to HotDealsClub.com.

The next task was to connect it to my Debian desktop (Dell Dimension 8300). After a lot of Googling, I was only able to use my monitor through the VGA interface of my nvidia card.

Here is the working XF86Config-4 file. Note that I am using "nv" module. The "nvidia" module always put the cpu to 100% use and I am unable to use it at this time.

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# XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by Dexter, the
# Debian X Configuration tool.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config manual page.
# (Type "man XF86Config" at the shell prompt.)

Section "Files"
# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

Section "Module"
# Load "ddc"
# Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"
# Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
# Load "pex5"
# Load "record"
# Load "xie"
# Load "bitmap"
Load "freetype"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
# Load "vbe"
# Load "int10"
Load "Xrender"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
# Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Graphics Device"
#Driver "vga"
#Driver "ati"
#Driver "nvidia"
Driver "nv"
EndSection

# Customized display mode
Section "Modes"
# 1680x1050 @ 60 Hz
# Horizontal pixels
# Front porch: 104 Back porch: 280 Sync width: 176
# Sync polarity: - Scan rate: 65.29kHz Active pixels: 1680
# Vertical lines:
# Front porch: 3 Back porch: 30 Sync width: 6
# Sync polarity + Refresh rate 59.954Hz Active pixels: 1050
# Pixel clock: 146.25MHz
Identifier "16:10"
ModeLine "1680x1050" 146.2 1680 1960 2136 2240 1050 1080 1086 1089
-hsync +vsync
EndSection

# Configure your monitor
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "lcdmonitor"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "DELL 2005FPW"
UseModes "16:10"
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 30-70
VertRefresh 55-90
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "widescreen"
Device "Generic Graphics Device"
Monitor "lcdmonitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1680x1050" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Generic Graphics Device"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
#Screen "Default Screen"
Screen "widescreen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Generic Mouse"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

# end of XF86Config
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